Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1887-12-09

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have had all that before this gets to print.
So will talk about something else. Sit
ting in the reporters gallery of the House
of Representatives. IS [ did on Monday,
before the organization, and looking down
upon the floor, there was bright and bus
Ting scene before me-. TIE desks and
seats freshly vanished, walls newly fres-
coed, elegant new carpet, green and gold,
corresponding well with the green balZe
desk tops, and the chatting, laughing 325
lawmakers constantly moving around ex-
changing greetings as old friends or get
ting acquainted as new members-foT
there are 120 new ones-ali went to make
up an interesting scene to The thousands
who crowded the extensive galleries above.
SWEARING THEM IN.
After Speaker Carlisle is elected al q
makes his capital tile speech, watch y L
| have doubtless read. tire Wearing III con
| mences, and as the menu rs are c,ileI
| by States, aud raising tii0ir rig.t hand
Ike the oath, except wi,ere few PEN
| sylvani4 @ ltkefs prefer i, llfitm, Qua II
| d fine opportunity 10 oo7eFve the rona
| marked characteristics of men c0mlh
| from he different and widely separate
sections of this great country. There ar
| the angular, bOny. fair-3kiuued New X :
anders the brawny foe looking ives =
ern men, many of them looking like they
| had split their hundreds of cords of rails III
their day ; among them, and also in TIL.
| Texas delegation, some very rough, un-
kempt looking customers, OF whom 1t is
whispered around among the reporters,
s.how in tae world did this or that man
| ever get here ?''-ald the dark skinned,
black haired, genteel looking Southerner.
| When the Virginia delegation came to the
| desk, their good looks were comm 9nted on
| by those near me, and no one was more
noticed than the Representative from the
Tenth District. ''Who is that young
l looking fellow" asked some one. THAT g
our little man Yost,' said I, and I was
not ashamed of his looks either, or of the
remark, ''he looks bright and brisk like
there was something in him." Yes, al
though my vote did not help to put him
there. you will be apt to hear from him
here" Although probably not the young
J est man IN the body, he has the most youth
! full appearance of any of them.
DRAWING FOR SEATS.
This is an interesting feature Of the
first day" All of the members vacate
their seats and stand behind the last row,
and blindfolded page draws the numbers
| Of each man, one by one, from d box. HIS
uame is sung out by the clerk, and be ad-
vances from the crowd, selects his desk,
and sits down at it. The first draw gets
| Virginian TO be c4lled. He got the seat
! of his choice in the second row from the
| front. George Wise was the next, and
got choice seat. w. g. P. Breckenridge,
| OF KY, SJaunton's favorite, got an early
| choice and good seat near the centre =
| ost, of Virginia, came soon after. and
took good seat in the Sd row, by the side
of Nathan Golf, OF West Virginia, on the
| Republican side. When Hopkins, the In
dependent, from Lynchourg, was called,
|
side of the House he would go. but he
promptly went among the Democrats and
took his seat by the side of Anderson, the
Independent, from Iowa, who had already
been seated. When RandaDl's name was
called, he advanced amid much handicap
ping and TOOK bis old seat next to George
Wise, which had been courteously lett for
him, no one having presumed to fill it,
Gibson, of Maryland, was in the same Sec
ton having taken Morrson's old seat
Springer, of illinois, was the last man call
ed By this time all of the seats On the
| Democratic side of the House had been
taken, and be had to walk over to the Re-
publican side, which he did amidst much
| laughter and applause. Many of the Re-
publican members rose and welcomed him
as if TO congratulate him on coming over
| to them. and then ended the seating, when
the House adjourned for the day.